BRATTLEBORO-On Thursday, Nov. 7, Brattleboro and surrounding villages experienced an internet outage caused by a local fire. Many of us around town rely on the internet to do our jobs (whether we work remotely or not).
I want to give a big thank you to the Brooks Memorial Library (and the town) for having better-than-commercial internet access available for free to anyone who walked in.
Dozens of people were quietly working on their laptops, able to go to work or school during the outage. This sort of resilience is important, should be encouraged on the local level, and helps neighbors weather disruptions.
I challenge all of us to think about other ways we can add additional resilience to our public services so that we are best able to cope with inevitable difficulties.
To those who were directly working to put out the fire and restore services, thank you!
Katie Wilson
Brattleboro
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